3 others in the registry answer to the name Eden. Every Eden in the Bible
- verses
- 1
- first named
- 2 Chronicles 31:15
- last named
- 2 Chronicles 31:15
- period
- Divided Monarchy
- role
- Man
Description
Who was Eden?
Eden is mentioned in 2Ch.31.15 as one of the Levites appointed by King Hezekiah to distribute the contributions, tithes, and dedicated gifts to their fellow Levites in their cities. He is listed along with Miniamin, Jeshua, Shemaiah, Amariah, and Shecaniah as trustworthy individuals chosen for this task.
The context of this passage is Hezekiah's reform of the religious practices in Judah. As part of his efforts to restore proper worship, Hezekiah ordered the people to bring their contributions, tithes, and dedicated gifts to the temple (2Ch.31.4-5). The response was overwhelming, and the people brought an abundance of offerings (2Ch.31.6-8).
To ensure the fair distribution of these offerings among the Levites and their families, Hezekiah appointed Eden and the other mentioned Levites to oversee the process. They were responsible for distributing the portions to their brethren in their cities, according to the divisions of the Levitical families (2Ch.31.15-19).
The appointment of Eden and the other Levites for this task highlights the importance of organization and fairness in the administration of the temple resources. It also demonstrates Hezekiah's concern for the well-being of the Levites and their families, ensuring that they received their due portions from the offerings.
Apart from this brief mention, no further information is provided about Eden or his specific role in the distribution process. His inclusion in the narrative emphasizes the Levites' involvement in the practical aspects of temple administration and their role in supporting the religious reforms initiated by King Hezekiah.
Relations
Direct connections
Every entity the graph places in a stated relation with this one, grouped by the kind of link. Each relation is authored once and its inverse derived, so both ends always agree. Rows marked “registry” come from the identity spine rather than from a verse, and a row marked “which bearer is the source’s decision” is one where the name could have meant more than one person. The last group is not a relation at all — it counts the events two entities stand in together.
Places
Where this happens
A person is placed by the events they take part in, and an event has to clear three things to place them: it must say where it happened, that place must be one the gazetteer can put a coordinate on, and the verse must report it rather than foretell, command or ask it. Nothing anchored here clears all three. Where the text names a setting no gazetteer surveys — a vineyard, a palace, a plot of ground — it is left off rather than guessed at; where a place is named only in a prophecy, the map does not draw what was said to be coming as though it had happened; and a place reached only through a relation is not inherited, because standing beside somebody is not being somewhere.
No verse Atlas has read as a report puts this person anywhere.
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The pattern
Where Eden is named
Every book of the corpus in the order it is read, each as wide as the chapters it holds. A bar is the verses of that book which write the name, and the flat stretches are as much of the answer as the bars.
1 verse across 1 of 66 books; 65 write the name nowhere. Named in 2 Chronicles (1).
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Where to read it
Every verse of the text carried here that names this entity — one, across 1 book.
2 Chronicles1 verse
Onward
Where this page goes
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